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Evidence from Housing Privatization and Restitution in Brno A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Mikula, Stepan; Montag, Josef Working Paper Does homeownership hinder labor market activity? Evidence from housing privatization and restitution in Brno MUNI ECON Working Paper, No. 2019-06 Provided in Cooperation with: Masaryk University, Faculty of Economics and Administration Suggested Citation: Mikula, Stepan; Montag, Josef (2019) : Does homeownership hinder labor market activity? 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We exploit housing privatization and restitution after the fall of communism as a source exogenous assignment of homeowner/renter status, using a unique dataset from the city of Brno, Czech Republic. We do not find any evidence of homeownership hindering labor force participation. In fact, our estimates suggest that homeownership reduces unemployment by four to six percentage points. Homeownership appears to decrease the risk of unemployment by about one third to one half, relative to renters. The estimated effects on labor force participation are systematically around zero. Masaryk University Faculty of Economics and Administration Authors: Štepánˇ Mikula / Masaryk University Josef Montag / Charles University in Prague Contact: [email protected], [email protected] Creation date: 2019-05-14 Revision date: Keywords: homeownership, labor force participation, unemployment, housing privatization and restitution JEL classification: J21, J64, P14, P25, P26, R31 Citation: Mikula, M., Montag, J. 2019. Does homeownership hinder labor market activity? Evidence from housing privatization and restitution in Brno. MUNI ECON Working Paper n. 2019-06. Brno: Masaryk University. MUNI ECON Working Paper n. 2019-06 ISSN 2571-130X Does homeownership hinder labor market activity? Evidence from housing privatization and restitution in Brno∗ Štěpán Mikula and Josef Montag† We study the effects of homeownership on labor force participation and unemployment. We exploit housing privatization and restitution after the fall of communism as a source exogenous assignment of homeowner/renter status, using a unique dataset from the city of Brno, Czech Republic. We do not find any evidence of homeownership hindering labor force participation. In fact, our estimates suggest that homeownership reduces unemployment by four to six percentage points. Homeownership appears to decrease the risk of unemployment by about one third to one half, relative to renters. The estimated effects on labor force participation are systematically around zero. JEL classification: J21, J64, P14, P25, P26, R31. Keywords: Homeownership, labor force participation, unemployment, housing privatization and restitution. 1 Introduction Government policies tend to prop up homeownership; via tax deductions, subsidies, privatization of public housing stock, and so on. This is controversial. On the one hand, some economists suggest that homeownership is associated with positive externalities, making homeowners “better citizens” (DiPasquale and Glaeser 1999; Huber and Montag 2018). However, others have pointed out that homeownership is likely to increase the ∗Financial support from the Czech Science Foundation, grant no. 15-17810S, is gratefully acknowledged. For helpful comments we thank Martin Guzi, Peter Huber, Peter Molnár, Olga Popova, Tommaso Reggiani, and participants at the 11th Geoffrey J.D. Hewings Regional Economics Workshop in Vienna and the 2019 Prague Conference on Political Economy. We also thank the Office of the Mayor of Brno and the Czech Statistical Office for providing the data. †Mikula: Corresponding author. Department of Economics, Masaryk University. Address: Lipová 41a, 60200 Brno, Czech Republic. Phone: +420 724 512 946. Email: [email protected]. Montag: Department of Economics, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. 1 mobility costs and may reduce labor market flexibility, leading to higher unemployment (Oswald 1996). Whether subsidization of homeownership from taxpayer’s pockets is justified, or whether homeownership should be discouraged instead, thus depends on the way it affects the greater economic system. This paper focuses on the effects of homeownership on labor market activity measured by labor force participation and unemployment. This is not the first paper trying to address this question. However, the evidence gathered so far remains mixed: Aggregate-level studies tend to find a positive correlation between unemployment and the share of owner-occupied housing, both within and across countries (e.g. Blanchflower and Oswald 2013; Green and Hendershott 2001; Oswald 1996). Micro-data estimates, by contrast, typically find that homeownership is associated with better labor market outcomes, mainly unemployment, its duration, and wages (see e.g. Battu, Ma, and Phimister 2008; Coulson and Fisher 2009; Munch, Rosholm, and Svarer 2006). Adding to the mixture, while many studies tend to find homeowners to be less mobile than renters, the recent evidence on the effects of property taxes suggests the labor market-related mobility is unaffected (Hilber and Lyytikäinen 2017; Slemrod, Weber, and Shan 2017).1 However, since homeownership is not randomly assigned, identifying its true (causal) effects is challenging. In fact, the decision whether to become homeowner is one the most significant and consequential decisions people make in their lifetime. It is therefore likely to be influenced by various factors, including those related to individuals’ labor market performance. A number of strategies, with varying degree of credibility, have been suggested to address this issue. The examples include using instruments such as regional homeownership rates (DiPasquale and Glaeser 1999), tax deductions and same-sex siblings (Coulson and Fisher 2009), and inheritance at young age (Gardner, Pierre, and Oswald 2001), or exploiting changes and notches in property taxes (Hilber and Lyytikäinen 2017; Slemrod, Weber, and Shan 2017). Recently, housing privatization has been proposed as an exogenous source of variation in homeownership (Broulíková et al. 2018; Huber and 1See also Broulíková, Huber, Montag, and Sunega (2018) and the literature cited therein. 2 Montag 2018; Sodini, Van Nieuwerburg, Vestman, and von Lilienfeld-Toal 2016). This is where our paper adds. Building up on a previous cross-country study by Broulíková et al. (2018), which used housing privatization to study the effects of homeownership on mobility and unemployment in post-communist economies, this paper studies the labor-market effects of homeownership in the context of housing privatization and restitution in Brno, second largest city in the Czech Republic with about 370,000 inhabitants. Housing privatization and restitution were part of the reforms following the fall of communism and resulted in a transfer of property rights over housing stock that was—from the point of view of the sitting tenants—to a large extent exogenous. Privatization resulted in tenants gaining ownership rights over the houses they inhabited. Restitution returned housing estates to the owners who were expropriated by the communist regime and turned the tenants into renters in privately owned houses. Specifically, a part of the housing stock, which was nationalized after the 1948 communist coup d’état, was returned to their rightful owners (hence “restituted”) early after the 1989 Velvet Revolution. The remaining public housing stock was transferred to municipalities. Municipalities then typically decided to privatize part of this housing property, usually on very attractive terms. Thus, individuals living in restituted houses would end up being renters in privately owned housing and were de facto excluded from housing privatization. At the same time, some individuals living in the publicly owned housing could
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